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Definition: Lipophilic |
LipophilicAdjective1. (chemistry) having an affinity for lipids. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Having an affinity for fat; pertaining to or characterized by lipophilia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: LipophilicSynonym: lipotropic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lipophilic |
| English words defined with "lipophilic": benzodiazepine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lipophilic": Dolichol Monophosphate Mannose ♦ P-Glycoproteins, Polychlorinated Biphenyls. (references) |
| "Lipophilic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lipophilic" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
balance hydrophilic lipophilic | 5 |
lipophilic | 5 |
antioxidant dietary lipophilic supplement | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lipophilic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 亲油性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | TU (afterload, filmcoated, first barrier, firstpass, hypouricaemia, irregular heartbeat, lack of uric acid in the blood, liquifilm, locoregional, morphinomimetic, oncotic, simulating effects of morphine, soporific, subcapsular, swelling related, syphilitis-related, thin liquid layer of coating, torsade de pointes, trivalent, vagolytic, with a valence of three, with an affinity for fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lipofiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lipofiilinen, rasvahakuinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | lipophile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | lipophil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιπόφιλος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | lipofilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipophiliclay lipofílico. (various references) lipófilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-i-l-l-o-p-p" | |
-4 letters: chilli. | |
-5 letters: chili, chill, hillo, hippo, lichi. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 70 6F 70 68 69 6C 69 63 |
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